Notker the Stammerer (Latin: Notker Balbulus) (c. 840 – 6 April 912), also called Notker the Poet or Notker of Saint Gall, was a musician, author, poet, and Benedictinemonk at the Abbey of Saint Gall in modern Switzerland. He is commonly accepted to be the Monk of Saint Gall (Monachus Sangallensis), the author of De Carolo Magno, a book of anecdotes about the Emperor Charlemagne.

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Two revealingly different accounts of the life of the most important figure of the Roman Empire Charlemage —known as the father of Europe—was one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers.

Notker the Stammerer, The Deeds o □ Emperor Charles the Great
INTRODUCTION Notker Balbulus ("the Stammerer") was born around 840,
orphaned very young, and raised for a time by a foster father, Adalbert, who gave
him as a child ...

This fella's no relation to Michael the Stammerer, the Byzantine Emperor who eased up on the iconodules. Stammerer is more of a trait than a family name, which is nice for any relatives who may speak more fluently.

Notker the Stammerer (Latin: Notker Balbulus) (c. 840 – 6 April 912), also called Notker the Poet or Notker of Saint Gall, was a musician, author, poet, and Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Saint Gall in modern Switzerland.

Written in the late 9th Century, a generation after Charlemagne. What grabs you about this passage?Then came in sight that man of iron, Charlemagne, topped with his iron helm, his fists in iron gloves, his iron chest and his Platonic shoulders clad in an iron cuirass.